John Mica: “Mr. Chairman, the point here is that honesty does not come from a bureaucrat or from a law. I have said it before and I…”

“Mr. Chairman, the point here is that honesty does not come from a bureaucrat or from a law. I have said it before and I will say it again, I do not know one Member of this body that is corrupted by money. As the gentlewoman said, we ought to lift all boats. Under Shays-Meehan and other kinds of restrictions, she would not be elected. She would not be able to get 58 percent of her money from PACs, because they would eliminate PACs. They would eliminate soft money. They would not be able to elect a woman and let her get in a boat and be lifted. That is what we are trying to say here.”